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Lol, so it is! I wonder where they find these stock photos sometimes Isn't that whole article basically an advert for Cyberpower? One of my main issues with that site was that unless you specified otherwise, the machines came with generic no-name PSUs that went pop in short order. Really, those things shouldn't even be an option to include.
Greetings to the 3 of you. DDP very impressive I wouldn't have even looked but then I didn't read the article. I usually do use a screw driver and I usually ask Sam Morris or this forum for hardware suggestions. He has never steered me wrong. Being a programmer I don't keep up with hardware. I also use a local mom and pop computer store to set my jumpers. Since the price of home-mades have gotten pricey my last is at least 5 yrs old. The writing on the MOBO is too small these days and they check my work before they turn it on. The last time I built one the charge was $50. The price goes up if you screwed up too much. Great insurance for so cheap.
It can be a handy fallback if you have that sort of capability - despite having built a system myself, when one of them went horribly wrong about 10 years ago due to a cheap PSU going bang, at the time it was just easier to have someone else deal with the problem and establish what was/wasn't toast without taking any safety hazards. It's not something I'd do now, but back then, £40 to have someone test every component and make recommendations was very useful. Sadly stores like that nowadays aren't always so easy to find.
mez, I didn't read the article as I thought I recognized the card so I looked at the picture & found I was right.
